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Ramis pinpoints the film as something of a turning point for Murray as a screen presence, telling Time Magazine, "In that role he actually got at the edge between the better, higher, gentler Bill and the bad, cranky, dark Bill. He figured out how to project the entirety of himself through character. When we were making the film, I'd launch into some explanation of the scene we were about to do, and he'd say, 'Just tell me - good Phil or bad Phil?'" Some other interesting casting notes: a British music magazine at the time pictured singer-songwriter Tori Amos with a copy of the script. It turns out she was being considered for Rita, the role eventually played by Andie MacDowell. Also, keep an eye out for the first screen appearance from Michael Shannon, who plays Fred, the young soon-to-be-married man whose bride, Debbie, is having second thoughts.
Screenwriter Danny Rubin spent much of his twenties in Chicago, trying his hand at various creative pursuits, before settling on screenwriting. He'd sold one script already when, inspired by Anne Rice's "Interview With The Vampire," Nietzsche's "The Gay Science" and William Dean Howell's "Christmas Every Day," came up with the idea of a man forced to live the worst day of his life over and over again. Once he had that germ, Rubin related "the first thing I thought of is, I've got to think of which day he repeats. Which day is it? And so, I just opened up the calendar and the first holiday day I came to was two days later, Groundhog Day, and I was thinking about that saying, 'Well, this is perfect. It's a completely unexploited holiday. We can play it on TV every year like the Charlie Brown specials.' But, other things started to make sense immediately too, like I wanted him to be a character who went somewhere and was in unfamiliar territory. If he was on his home turf with his family and friends, it would be a completely different story." The script took about seven weeks of outlining, but was then written in an alarmingly fast three or four days. While studios originally passed on it, despite universally loving it, CAA managed to get it to Harold Ramis, who jumped right aboard.
But the script was in quite a different form back then. For one, it began in media res, as it were. Rubin explains. "The first things that happens is you hear the clock radio come on with the 'I Got You Babe' and then the DJs come on doing their little shtick and Phil is able to sort of mouth the words to what they're saying when he wakes up before he even knows what they're saying and the audience is thinking, 'Huh, that's strange. How does he know what's playing on the radio?' And then he goes downstairs and he knows what Mr. Lancaster is going to say before she says it, so he's anticipating and the audience is thinking, 'Wow, this is weird. How does this guy know what's going to happen before it happens?' Then he goes outside and this geeky goes, 'Phil?' and Phil goes up to him and takes off his glove and he slugs him and we have no idea why that happened. And so, I set it up by beginning in the middle with this mystery. How does this guy have this supernatural ability and we go through meeting, you know, going through the Groundhog report and setting up the day and then he repeats the day and that's when we know how the movie is set up and we understand how he knows what he knows..."
Rightly, Ramis suggested that the script should set Phil's normal life up first as well as cutting the original ending, which, as he told the New Yorker, saw Rita "reveal that she's trapped in her own endless repetition, and that there's no existential relief in sight." The studio also tried to get the writer to add a scene that explained Phil's predicament as the result of a gypsy curse put on him by an ex-lover, but Ramis refused to shoot it. One thing that Rubin was insistent on, as he told The Guardian recently, was scrubbing the script of any 1990s pop culture references, lending it the timeless quality that means it holds up as well today as it ever has.


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GSA's Automated Advanced Acquisition Program (AAAP) offers people and businesses the opportunity to electronically offer building space for lease to the Federal Government. The offer submission process is completely web-enabled, allowing all registered participants to submit and update offers to lease space to the Federal Government within specified timeframes, in response to a Request for Lease Proposal (RLP).
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The AAAP runs a solicitation in a delineated area of a major metropolitan city. Currently, the AAAP is in the Washington, DC metro area, Atlanta, Chicago and New York. The solicitation results in large inventories available to the Government for either 5-year firm term, 5-year firm term with 5-year option, or 10-year firm term at pre-negotiated rates all with pre-negotiated terms and conditions. This obviates the need to advertise, negotiate with offerors, and evaluate final offers, which shortens the leasing process considerably.
The AAAP employs electronic signature technology, in the form of a six-digit self-select personal identification number (PIN), to enable building owners to update existing online offers or submit new ones. Without the electronic signature and the automatic evaluation process, GSA would spend weeks reviewing the terms and conditions of paper lease offers that it received to make sure that they were consistent with the RLP.
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" I think I used the previous generation of this diaper and they have updated the design. However, if you're going to buy these used or whatnot, you can keep my review in mind! I bought these used when I was pregnant. They had been used by one baby before mine. The velcro was in great condition. The velcro is quite large on baby's belly. I would say that these diapers would be best..." --LunaLady
Bummis Pull On Diaper Cover (Small 8-18 pounds, Ocean)
" I really like this cover, its like an old style cover but with a breathable fabric! Seems to be a very comfortable and relaxed fit, Very nice fit around the legs so its snug but still able to move. Only thing bad is that it seems to have too much fabric in the front and not enough in the back so its a little tricky to get some of the fitteds completely covered, requires some fidgeting but..." --Denise Poirier
Bummis Tot Bots Easy Fit One-Piece Diaper 8-35 lbs
" Let me start by saying that if I lived in England/Scotland, we would probably diaper exclusively with Tots Bots. That said, I am in the US, so the increased cost of these associated with the guilt over our fossil fuel footprint make that impractical. I fell in love with the prints through their sister company Bummis (based in Canada) and splurged on a couple for my daughter. The prints are..." --cbwilke
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" I was so happy to find these when my son was born. He was born 7 weeks early and I still wanted to cloth diaper, despite his small size. I bought these (the preemie size is such a great deal on Amazon!) in 'preemie' and used them with the newborn Bummis Super Brite covers and they worked PERFECTLY together. My son started wearing them when he was 6 pounds and he wore them for about..." --LunaLady
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By SCOTT WILSON The Washington Post
WASHINGTON - President Obama will nominate former Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Nebraska Republican and Vietnam veteran, to be secretary of defense as early as Monday, according to a person close to the process.
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In the last day, the White House has informed the Hagel camp that Obama intends to announce the nomination and expect it to come Monday. But the person with knowledge of the process, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the event could slip until Tuesday due to scheduling issues.
Hagel would add a well-known Republican to the president's second-term Cabinet at a time when Obama, after a bitter presidential campaign, is looking to better bridge the partisan divide.
But Hagel's expected nomination has drawn sharp criticism in recent weeks, particularly from Republicans who have questioned his commitment to Israel's security.
The choice sets up a nomination fight Obama appeared unwilling to have over his preferred pick for secretary of state, Susan Rice, who pulled out of consideration for that job last month amid Republican complaints over her role in explaining the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, last year that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
In an appearance Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., called Hagel's selection "an in-your-face nomination."
But Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said that Hagel's record would be given a fair shake in the Senate if he is nominated. McConnell stopped short of saying whether he was prepared to support or oppose his former colleague.
"He's certainly been outspoken in foreign policy and defense over the years," McConnell said on ABC's "This Week With George Stephanopoulos." "The question we'll be answering if he's the nominee is do his views make sense for that particular job. I think he ought to be given a fair hearing, like any other nominee. And he will be."
The Hagel announcement will begin what White House officials have said will likely be a busy week of announcements regarding who will fill out Obama's second-term Cabinet and senior staff.
The president returned from a curtailed holiday in Hawaii on Sunday, and will begin making a series of final personnel decisions delayed by the year-end negotiations with Congress over taxes and spending cuts in the next few days.
Hagel, who twice received the Purple Heart for wounds suffered in Vietnam, served in the Senate for two terms ending in 2009.
He was an outspoken and often-independent voice as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, breaking with many in his party to sharply criticize the management of the Iraq war after he initially supported the invasion.
Hagel also has been a strong advocate for veterans, an issue Obama has spoken about frequently as tens of thousands of U.S. troops return from battlefields after more than a decade of war.
Much of the recent criticism over Hagel's record has focused on his past opposition to imposing sanctions on Iran, which he voted against three times as a senator. He also supported labeling Iran a state sponsor of terrorism.
His record has raised concern among some of Israel's supporters in the United States, who fear Hagel may not be sufficiently committed to Israel's security.
But his defenders point to his record as a senior senator on the Foreign Relations Committee, where he voted for nearly $38 billion in military aid to Israel over his tenure.
Obama, who worked with Hagel on nuclear non-proliferation issues and other foreign policy matters in the Senate, has vowed to prevent Iran from using its uranium-enrichment program to develop a nuclear weapon.
Obama has tightened international sanctions during his term to pressure the Islamic Republic to give up the effort, of which Hagel has spoken in support of in recent comments. The Iranian government has said it is pursuing nuclear power, not weapons.
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CARDIFF-BY-THE-SEA — Cardiff's SuperFood Drive, SuperKids for SuperFoods, was one of the recipients of a UnitedHealthcare of California grant to Southern California youth-led organizations to develop programs to fight childhood obesity in their communities.
The SuperFood Drive received a $500 grant to recruit a group of up to 10 high school students to volunteer at a local urban garden and a local food bank. The students will sort and distribute food, as well as receive training in hunger awareness and nutrition. After that, the students will educate their peers, parents, local businesses and grocery stores on the importance of donating healthy, non-perishable food items.
The grants will help create community-based programs that encourage healthful habits among California residents. The UnitedHealth HEROES program in California will focus on the approximately 30.5 percent of children ages 10 to 17 who are considered obese or overweight, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
"Prevention is a key to reducing the cost of health care in California, and that includes a renewed focus on ending the epidemic of childhood obesity," said California State Senator Ed Hernandez, chairman of the Senate Health Committee.
More information about the UnitedHealth HEROES program and service-learning is available at www.ysa.org. Visit unitedhealthgroup.com for more information.
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Bacteria are not known for their ability to stir the imagination, but there is at least one reliable exception: bacteria from Mars. In 1996, a NASA study caused a sensation when it announced the mere possibility of fossilized bacteria in a meteorite believed to be from the Red Planet. Thirty-six years after the Viking landers collected soil on Mars, scientists can still make news by declaring that the samples indicate the presence of microbes. Although conclusive evidence for life on Mars (or on any other foreign planet) has yet to turn up, humans are an impatient species. And so we have invented extraterrestrials of every conceivable kind. There are fictional aliens that resemble little green men, mollusks, insects, plants, and minerals. Sometimes they have no bodies at all.
For all their diversity, these creatures tend to fall into one of two groups: those we can live with and those we can't. This summer, Hollywood franchises espousing each view will be delivering their newest installments. The genial "Men in Black" movies suggest that freaky-looking extraterrestrials already live among us, undetected by most citizens and overseen by an agency made up of weary bureaucrats and blasé field officers. The films are an extended pun on the alternate meaning of "alien": immigrant. Far grimmer is "Prometheus," the latest "Alien" movie; the series features an implacable foe that uses our bodies as nests for its young, and likes to chase us through hideous, dripping corridors while baring its hideous, dripping fangs.
Before the nineteenth century, if authors depicted the inhabitants of other planets the aliens were essentially human. The suave Saturnian described by Voltaire in a satirical 1752 story, "Micromégas," looks like an earthling, except that he's six thousand feet tall. (And he has a Continental spirit, keeping a mistress—a "pretty little brunette, barely six hundred and sixty fathoms high.") The Saturnian's primary fictional purpose, as he visits our planet, is to marvel at the relative puniness of humankind, whom he examines with a very large microscope.
It was only after Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's and Charles Darwin's theories of adaptation and natural selection gained wider acceptance, in the nineteenth century, that writers began to speculate in earnest about the sorts of creatures that might flourish in environments beyond Earth. According to Brian Stableford, writing in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, the definitive reference on the genre, Camille Flammarion was the first author to present a popular fictional portrait of truly alien life-forms. Flammarion was a French astronomer whose metaphysical interests, if he were pursuing them today, would be labelled New Age. (These beliefs damaged his scientific reputation, but they did lead to a friendship with Arthur Conan Doyle, who shared a fascination with spiritualism.) In 1864, Flammarion wrote a nonfiction book, "Real and Imaginary Worlds," expressing his conviction that there was life on other planets, and eight years later he produced "Lumen," a peculiar fictional work in which the title character, a scholar, relates the myriad wonders of the universe to a disciple.
"Lumen" belongs to the least congenial of literary genres: the philosophical dialogue. Vast swaths of it are given over to explanations of how Lumen, having died, has become a being of pure soul who is able to witness events in the past. Not only can he zoom in on choice historical figures and incidents on Earth; he can also see life on other worlds.
Eventually, Lumen's gaze is directed to a distant planet called Virgo. Alien beings, he explains, "are the result of elements special to each globe, and of the forces which regulate them." This observation aligns with Lamarck's theory of adaptation and, by extension, with the serene rationality of French positivism. According to this pre-Darwinian notion of evolution, animals were thought to shape themselves to match their environments. Life worked its way up a hierarchical ladder of complexity, becoming more "advanced" with each rung; mankind was seen by many thinkers as standing at the top of the ladder.
Although this isn't a theistic view of the universe, it is a stable, orderly, and knowable one, calling to mind the medieval belief that all creation is organized in ascending rank, from the grossest of matter all the way up to God himself. There's something premodern, too, in Flammarion's depiction of the creatures on Virgo. The aliens are a pell-mell combination of human features—rather like the mythical headless Blemmyes, whose faces, according to Pliny the Elder, were in their chests. Lumen's aliens have three thumbs instead of five fingers, and three toes growing out of the heels of their feet; if there's an adaptive reason for this, it is never explained. They have only one ear, "in the shape of a cone, which is placed on the upper part of the skull like a little hat." They are without gender, reproducing "spontaneously." Though they lack wings, they can fly.
As Lumen's all-seeing eye zips around outer space, he spies mermanlike aliens swimming through a rose-colored ocean, a planet populated by "intelligent vegetable races," and another where the inhabitants—"neither vegetables nor animals"—resemble mobile cacti. Flammarion was a reincarnation enthusiast, and on each planet Lumen locates his own incarnation among the natives, a conceit that allows the narrator to conjure what it's like to be such strange creatures. Disappointingly, the aliens' florid bodies are mere candy coatings; on the inside, they all have the sentimental morality of a nineteenth-century Frenchman. As a conehead, Lumen savors "fraternal confidences" with an "intimate friend." On another planet, where Lumen inhabits a fantastical form that resembles a fig tree, he tenderly bestows a blossom from one of his own branches upon a grateful, leafy child.


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Police had to shut down a mall in Louisiana Saturday night after a flash mob turned into a huge fight.
A witness says teenagers could be seen jumping over and knocking down tables inside of the Baton Rouge mall.
Local police say there were no major injuries reported.
Investigators believe around 200 teens came to the mall after reading a call for a flash mob on a social networking site.
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The employer mandate and 'affordable' insurance
Two of the most widely debated provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are the individual mandate and the employer mandate, both of which are scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, 2014. At that time, all individuals will be required to have health insurance coverage and all employers with 50 or more full-time equivalent employees will have to offer health insurance to their full-time employees and their dependents under the age of 26. Those who choose not to follow the mandates will be required to pay a penalty.
As part of the employer mandate, a rental company with 50 or more full-time or full-time equivalent employees that offers qualifying coverage to full-time employees must offer coverage that is "affordable" and of "minimum value" in order to avoid the penalty.
"Affordable" has a very specific meaning in this context. In the ACA, "affordable" means that no full-time employee will have to pay more than 9.5 percent of their income as their share of the cost of their health insurance. For example, if a rental company pays an employee $20,000 per year, the employee cannot pay more than $1,900 in insurance premiums or their insurance is considered not affordable and the employer is subject to a penalty.
While dependent coverage is required under the ACA, the 9.5 percent rule does not apply to that coverage. If the employee making $20,000 buys a plan that costs him less than $1,900, but decides to insure his children as well at a total cost that exceeds $1,900, this is not a violation of the affordability provision and no penalty is incurred. In addition, spouses are not considered dependents; therefore the ACA does not require coverage of spouses.
In addition to being affordable, all insurance plans also must meet "minimum value" requirements as defined by the ACA. This means that the plan's share of total allowed benefit cost must be more than 60 percent. Amounts of money contributed by an equipment rental store to employee health savings accounts (HSAs) for a current plan year would be taken into account in determining the plan's share of costs for purposes of determining "minimum value."
Individuals generally can receive a premium tax credit for coverage in the exchanges being established by ACA only if they are not eligible for affordable coverage under an employer-sponsored plan that provides minimum value. Effective Jan. 1, 2014, employers with 50 or more employees who have even one full-time employee receiving a premium tax credit through the exchange due to the lack of affordable minimum coverage will be subject to the full penalty, which is the lesser of $3,000 for each employee who has to pay more than 9.5 percent or $2,000 for each full-time employee over the 30-employee exemption.
For example, a large rental business with more than 50 full-time employees offers minimum essential coverage to full-time employees. One or more of those employees receives premium subsidies because the rental store's policy premiums exceed 9.5 percent of their income or does not meet the 60 percent minimum value test. The penalty the rental business must pay is the lesser of $3,000 per subsidized full-time employee or $2,000 per full-time employee, minus 30 full-time employees.
Health insurance exchanges are expected to be open in 2014 to individuals and small businesses with up to 100 employees, although states may limit the small employer definition to no more than 50 employees until 2016. All individual and small group health insurance policies, regardless of where obtained, must provide an "essential health benefit" package. This will be the basis for coverage offered in the exchanges and surrounding small group insurance market. States are to select a "benchmark" plan from these four options by September 2013:
If a state fails to select a benchmark, the largest small group insurance plan offered in the state will be the default selection. After the state selection is made, the Department of Health and Human Services will evaluate state-selected benchmarks against the ACA's 10 categories of required coverage before publishing enhanced benchmarks for comment.
The ACA specifies that all plans meeting essential health benefit requirements will include at least the following categories: ambulatory patient services; emergency services; hospitalization; maternity and newborn care; mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment; prescription drugs; rehabilitation and habilitative services and devices; lab services; preventative and wellness services and chronic disease management; and pediatric services, including oral and vision care.
Citizens and legal residents with household incomes between 100 and 400 percent of the federal poverty level who purchase coverage through a health insurance exchange and do not have access to an "affordable" health plan of minimum value through their employer are eligible to receive a monthly advance tax credit to reduce the cost of their coverage.
"It is estimated that approximately 68 percent of the population is at or below 400 percent of the federal poverty level, making them eligible to take advantage of premium subsidies for coverage," says Alysia Ryan, director of state and local government affairs for the American Rental Association (ARA).
"It is critical that you take time now to assess how many employees in your company might be eligible to receive a subsidy and know how this will affect your decision about the health care coverage you offer," Ryan says.
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Despite several complex provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), many in the small business community were anxious to investigate the small business health options program (SHOP) exchanges, which were designed to provide small businesses with fewer than 100 employees a competitive marketplace in which to buy insurance for their employees.
However, due to operational challenges, this provision has been put on hold and small employers will initially be limited to a single plan. The idea was to offer more choices for businesses trying to comply with ACA. Originally set for implementation by Oct. 1, 2013, the date for SHOP exchanges has been pushed back to Jan. 1, 2015. In spite of this setback, small business tax credits may be available to offset the cost of insurance.
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The Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants (MACPA) announced that Oakland University Professor of Accounting Gadis "Buck" Dillon is the recipient of its 2013 Accounting Teaching Excellence Award.
This prestigious award recognizes educators who excel in teaching accounting and promoting the Certified Public Accounting profession. The MACPA will recognize Dillon at its awards dinner Sept. 30.
"I am extremely honored to receive the Michigan Association of CPAs' Accounting Teaching Excellence Award for 2013," Dillon says. "During my 26 years at Oakland, I hope and believe that I have made a positive contribution to the accounting profession in Michigan and have helped many students develop into successful professionals."
Dillon is committed to helping students realize, then reach, their educational and career goals. From creating and sustaining active, successful student organizations, introducing high school students to accounting careers and college opportunities, to guiding students in gaining professional development opportunities and seeking out financial assistance through scholarships, the impact of Dillon's mentorship is immense.
"Since Dr. Dillon's arrival in 1987, he played an instrumental role in raising the academic standards for our accounting students," says Mohinder Parkash, chair, OU's Department of Accounting and Finance in the School of Business Administration. "Through his influence, the curriculum is innovative, current and relevant and, without any reservation, our graduates are well prepared for careers in public accounting, industry and government."
His influence can be seen throughout the business school's accounting program.
"Learning does not end when the student leaves the classroom," Dillon says. "I certainly expect my students to understand the classroom material, but the business community seeks more than just discipline-specific technical competence. Professional maturity is essential. Accordingly, I have worked to provide professional development/professional maturity experiences for my students outside the classroom. Many students have embraced the opportunity for professional development. I believe this is my greatest contribution."
Dillon served as faculty adviser helping OU accounting students establish a chapter of Beta Alpha Psi (BAP), the national accounting fraternity in 1991. In 1996, he was recognized as a National Outstanding Faculty Advisor for his work with Beta Alpha Psi, and he served on the National Council 1997-2000.
Since it was organized, the chapter has consistently achieved "superior chapter" status awarded by its national organization.
He also helped accounting students launch a student chapter of the National Association of Black Accountants (NABA), serving as faculty advisor since 2007. The OU NABA chapter was formally chartered by the national organization in 2010.
Dillon leverages his participation with MACPA to create community service and growth opportunities for students. Thanks to his efforts, OU partners with MACPA to sponsor an all-day High School Leadership Conference at OU, which promotes business and accounting education to more than 200 high school students and teachers annually.
As a trustee with the Michigan Accountancy Foundation, Dillon often encourages OU students to apply for scholarships the foundation awards to accounting students for their fifth year of education, a requirement for CPA exam and certification.
In his role as a researcher, Dillon has focused on identifying student characteristics that CPA and industry recruiters value. His expertise helped OU's business school create the ACHIEVE program, which helps guide students toward their ideal career.
"Dr. Dillon's service to the school, university and community is, in many ways, no different than his commitment to the students' education and their career development," Parkash says.
"As a full-time accounting educator, you make an important and powerful impact on your students – the future of the (CPA) profession," Peggy Dzierzawksi, president and CEO, MACPA, writes in the award letter. "Thank you … for the positive influence you have on your students."


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I'm looking at getting a Toshiba R835-P56x. I looked at the hardware list for putting Mac OSX on PC and don't see much info on Toshiba. Does anyone know if Toshiba is typically not supportable or if it just hasn't been tested?
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Leroy Jethro Gibbs
Leroy Jethro Gibbs is the special agent in charge on NCIS.
Gibbs joined the United States Marine Corps instead of attending college. He became a Scout Sniper.
In his free time, he is occasionally shown in his basement building a boat, which he named after his daughter.
Gibbs' age has never been revealed, but it was shown that he was born in rural Stillwater, Pennsylvania. His father, Jackson Gibbs, owns a store (the Stillwater General Store) in the same town.
It has been mentioned in the episode "Frame Up" that Gibbs' father was possibly in the United States Army Air Force because Gibbs refers to a pin-up on his father's P-51 Mustang.
He is named after his father's friend, Leroy Jethro, who was his business partner in the store after having worked together in the coal mines. The younger Gibbs left Stillwater in 1976 at the approximate age of 18-20 and, according to his own statements, did not return for over 30 years.
At NCIS, Gibbs is portrayed as a consummate organizer, disciplined and demanding. These traits often put him in a stand-off with other authorities when pressure is being asserted at his team.
He remains a Marine reservist.
Before the time in which NCIS is set, Gibbs travelled extensively on operations, particularly in Eastern Europe, demonstrated by many flashbacks, many including Director Jenny Shepard.
Gibbs displays a continuous urgency about the investigation he pursues, specifically when being given technical information about, complex subject matter.
The typical response to such information is "Give it to me in English", thus forcing the expert to get to the point, as well as making it easy on the audience.
Gibbs has been married three times and had one daughter named Kelly.
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As far as I know, Mark Harmon is still married to Pam Dawber. His son appeared as the young Jethro when he joined the Marines, and met Shannon. Although he is about 62, he is still VERY sexy. His smile and his eyes just light up any scene he is in. I love the intensity and loyalty he (Gibbs) displays for his team members. The casting for his show is perfect, except Rena Sofer is very annoying. Michael Weatherly (DiNozzo) is a very good looking man, too. And Ducky is perfect! I remember the episode when Kate asked Gibbs what Ducky looked like when he was young, and he said Illya Kuriakin (I'm sure I misspelled that), which was the character David McCallum played on Man from U.N.C.L.E. Funny.
I am big fan of Mark Harmon,especially as Liroy Jethro Gibbs, but aren't we all...? He's one hell of a man and when on ncis appears any scene with gubbs and beatiful woman I get thrill, he makes simple smile any gestures so full of this ectricity, this unbearable tension that I have to take a deep breath
Can anyone put a valid link to some online movie when I could watch The Deliberate Stranger with MArk Harmon portraying Ted Bundy? I really would like to see this movie DELIBERATELY for Harmon


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Eric "The Excitable" Boehlert is one of my "favorite" guys (and they are almost all guys) at Media Matters.
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GRUBB — A son, Carson, to Scott Grubb and Ashley Gerhard of Traverse City, Oct. 8.
RUSSELL — A daughter, Nora, to Steven and Rebecca (Thurk) Russell of Traverse City, Oct. 10.
STOOPS — A daughter, Emma Jean, to Andrew and Alissa (Fryer) Stoops of Grand Haven, Oct. 5 at North Ottawa Community Hospital in Grand Haven. Mrs. Stoops is a former Suttons Bay resident.
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Study: Bank bailout didn't boost small business lendingNovember 14, 2012: 12:17 PM ET
Not sure we needed it, but here's another sign the great bank bailout of 2008/2009 didn't work as promised.
FORTUNE -- A new study by the Small Business Administration found that the money the banks got from the government in the wake of the financial crisis didn't encourage small business lending. In fact, it may have done just the opposite.
The study, which was done by Rebel Cole, a professor at DePaul University, looked at banks that got money from the government in 2008 and 2009 through the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and banks that did not. What Cole found is that the banks that got TARP not only didn't use the money to boost lending, they actually cut their lending, at least when it came to small businesses, and that drop was larger than at banks that didn't get TARP.
This is of course distressing for the SBA and small businesses in general. But alone it isn't really a sign that the bailouts didn't work. Nor is it all that surprising. Nonetheless, the study does bring up a good point.
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The bit that the bank bailout was going to boost lending to small businesses or anyone else was always a bit of a misdirect and cover for TARP, which law makers knew was going to be unpopular for what it was, which was a large bailout of Wall Street. We know how to encourage lending. The government has to guarantee loans. That's how it works in the housing market. And, indeed, in the small business market. At no other time does the government hand over money to banks to boost lending. So it's not surprising that you can debunk this.
What's more, in measuring the bailout's effect on lending there is a lot of noise in the data. The bulk of the bailout funds went to large banks. Small business lending is never all that important to the big banks. So it's no surprise that they, the TARP banks, would pull back on that part of their business when they ran into trouble, more than small banks, to which small business lending is their bread and butter.
There is a lot of other stuff in the report that is obvious as well. Matt Levine at Dealbreaker does a nice job of summing this all up when he writes, "There you were hoping that giving money to banks was somehow equivalent to giving money to small businesses, but it turns out that giving money to banks looks more like giving money to banks."
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And Cole seems to misinterpret some of his results as well. The study finds that better capitalized banks do more lending. (They have more capital after all.) So Cole argues that the big bank CEO are wrong to say that higher capital requirements will hurt lending. But I don't think that's what they are saying. What they are saying is higher capital requirements will hurt lending because we have to hold onto more of our cash in order to get there.
As for TARP, No big bank failed after the government started giving out cash. That's why many can argue, rightly so, that the bailouts worked. But as I have said before I think that's a very low bar.
In that sense, I think the Cole and SBA study gets at an interesting point, even if they are looking at the wrong metrics. The important point is not whether TARP banks boosted their lending right after the bailout. The real indictment of the big bank bailout of 2008/2009 is that banks four years later are still lending at much lower rates than they historically have. And the lending weakness does appear to be worse at the largest banks - the ones that got the most assistance from the government. Whatever pick up has happened in lending had mostly happened from mid-sized banks. Smaller banks are struggling as well, but that might be a different story.
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A well structured bailout would have done something not just to save the banks, but to clean them up so that our banking system was healthier than before the bailout, and not the limping along mess it has become. That's the real sign that the bailout perhaps not failed but certainly could have been much, much better.


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Sean Lowe and his new wife Catherine will serve as Grand Marshals. The two appeared on the hit show, 'The Bachelor.'
K-9 Kota and his handler were honored at a ceremony in Winchester on Thursday night.
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Charles Middleberg was only 9-years-old when the Nazis invaded Paris, France, where he lived with his parents and his younger brother.
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The K-Mart along 706 E. Main Street will be closing it's doors permanently sometime this June. That means everything must go!
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Members of VSP met with Clarke County Commonwealth's Attorney Suzanna Mackall Thursday to review the evidence in the Sunday, April 13 incident involving Deputy J.C. McDonald.
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Police say when the homeowner arrived they noticed more than $5,000 in jewelry was taken, $1,000 in cash, medication and other electronics.
Troopers say a tractor trailer rolled over into a ditch on I-81 south, near mile marker 311 around 10 a.m. Thursday morning.
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A 27-year-old woman is currently listed in critical condition after she was struck by a vehicle Wednesday night, according to the Hagerstown City Police Department.
The Washington County Sheriff's Office confirms a 17-year-old will be charged as an adult and is facing attempted murder charges for a shooting incident Wednesday night in Cascade.
The two-vehicle crash happened around 6:45 p.m. near mm 4 along I-81 southbound in Franklin County.
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The office, located on 38 South Potomac Street, Suite 205 in Hagerstown, will be open Monday through Friday. He also met with the I-81 Coalition to discuss legislature he's working on.
Nearly five years after Berryville Town Councilwoman Gail Smith was murdered in cold blood, her sister, Deborah Smith is likely headed to prison.
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Amazing Results In Only 3 Days
By Christine
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I'm 37 and all of a sudden I have the skin of a teenager. The past year has been horrible; I started breaking out around my jaw-line, my T-Zone is extra oily and my cheeks are covered in clogged pores (tiny white bumps). A couple of months ago I purchased a high end cleansing brush which eliminated the jaw-line breakouts, but didn't help much with oil control or clogged pores. Having tried many cleansers and acne products by this point I was tired of spending money and nothing working. So after seeing Dr. Perricone on TV I hopped online and investigated what he had to offer for my individual skin issues. I decided to try the Enlarged Pores Prescription because it claimed to cleanse pores and reduce oil production by getting to the root of the problem. I started the 3-step system on Monday night and used it twice a day, finishing with the cold plasma moisturizer (which I got as a free sample). By Thursday my skin had improved astronomically. My T-zone is already looking better, my skin doesn't feel like its covered in oil and the little white bumps on my cheeks are almost gone. In just 3 days these products have far exceeded my expectations. I can't wait to see what my skin will look like in 3 months. Dr. Perricone you have done what I never thought possible after struggling with this for so long. I'm a believer and a lifetime customer.Thank you Dr. Perricone
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This was given to me as a gift from a family member earlier this year. I Moved to the States a little under 2 years ago and due to the dramatic climate/ diet changes my skin not only started to age quickly (wrinkles, enlarged pores) but I had some what of a regression back to fighting acne and clusters of blackheads on a daily basis in the beautiful but dry mountain air. I couldn't be more grateful for these products. my skin went from being agitated and oily to more even and healthy in weeks. I use the treatment, minimiser and wash 2 times a day. It is so simple and quick to do there is no excuses not to do it- especially after the way it leaves your skin feeling.It may be viewed as expensive but you can be sparing with the application- a little goes a long way. As it was a gift I have no bias on cost and can assure that this will be a staple for years to come in my bathroom. I can't wait to try the Blue plasma!
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If I ever find a genie one of my wishes wiould be to have great skin. At 36 I am still battling with acne, my skin is super sentsitive due to all of the acne medication which means i break out with most products, have scars and spots. I have been a fan of Dr Perricone for a long time and have been using the pore minimizer for about a year.. However, last month I started using the whole prescription for enlarged pores ( citrus cleanser, minimizer and intensive pore treatment. Since the first day I noticed my skin looked tighter. A few days later my skin got a glow I have not seen in a long time, even my husband was complimenting it. I use it twice a day and get a little bit of tingling after putting the treatment but goes away quickly. My pores seem smaller and even some very fine lines I have in my forehead seem t be less noticeable. My combination skin seems to be better balanced and I is not getting oily during the day. I have also started taking the skin clear supplements which I stopped a few months ago. When I was taking them last summer people always said I looked radiant and believed I was 10 years younger. Now that I am using all of these I am confident I will get to love my skin. I Wish Dr Perricone will come out with a spot treatment for the occasional hormonal blemishes. These products are a face changer. I am looking forward to using more treatments. I am a huge fan and strongly recommend it. Ater trying so many brands, it is so worthy to pay more for a product that actually works.
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It was STRONGLY suggested to me that I should use this trio by a skin specialist. At first I thought she was trying to sell me more than I needed-but she wasn't pushy-she truly believed in the product. So I took my time and really read about the products and looked at the reviews. After finally ordering this trio and using it I could not believe the difference in ONE use. Sometimes I forget to shake the Minimizer and I know the goodies in there sink if I don't, so I put a sticky note on the mirror LOL! My skin is so soft after cleansing, the splash of cooling when I apply the minimizer is wonderful. I love the feel of the Treatment gliding over my skin, then how smooth it is after using all three. I need only a small amount of each and I am into month 2 of using my products and must say I am surprised by how much I have left! If there was one thing I could change I would like the Minimizer to be a little thicker, just so I didn't lose as much around my finger tips. Then I wonder how different it would have to be-would it have the same effect? The bottom line is that my pores are honest to goodness visibly reduced. I need very little primer and on many daysthat is all I need! I don't have to use foundation if I don't feel like it!!! I have also purchased the Vitamin C Ester 15 and use it as my finishing lotion. Using this treatment twice a day for only 2 months has garnered me the best compliments on my skin since I was in my twenties! I put a current pic on facebook and even my Mom was wowed. I feel like a walking Perricone billboard! Thank you for these incredible products! You have gained a lifer!


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When manual processes resulted in lengthy turnaround times and dissatisfaction among internal customers, Bank of America took its technology leasing program online with a Web-based sourcing solution.
When manual processes resulted in lengthy turnaround times and dissatisfaction among internal customers, Bank of America took its technology leasing program online with a Web-based sourcing solution.
[From Supply & Demand Chain Executive, October/November 2004] The consumer and commercial banking operations at Bank of America transact with more than 150 customers per second, but when the bank's staff needed to lease information technology equipment, the turnaround time to get the information they needed to choose a lessor stretched to nearly two weeks. Until, that is, the bank applied Six Sigma principles and e-sourcing tools to its IT equipment leasing processes.
Charlotte, N.C.-based Bank of America, holding nearly a half-trillion dollars in investor assets, has more than 177,000 employees working in 5,790 banking centers in 29 states and the District of Columbia. As recently as a couple of years ago, the bank had a single employee handling its leases for various IT equipment, ranging from copiers to midrange computers and mainframes in short, any IT-related piece of equipment went through one person.
The lone leasing lead processed dozens of requests for proposals (RFPs) every year using e-mail and "snail mail" to correspond with the equipment lessors. When a leasing request came in from one of Bank of America's internal customers (or "business partners," in the bank's lexicon), the lead would prepare and send out RFPs to the bank's dozen or so regular lessors and wait as the responses trickled back into the bank.
Eventually the lead would collate the responses and pass the lessors' proposed lease rate factors back to the internal customer for a decision. (The lease rate factor is a percentage figure that, when multiplied by the total cost of the piece of equipment in question, produces the periodic lease payment.) All in all, the turnaround time from the moment the internal business partner requested a lease rate factor to the moment the leasing lead could provide that information was averaging 11 days.
Bringing in the Six Sigma Team
"It was extremely slow," says Michelle Selk, a sourcing lead at Bank of America, of the lengthy cycle time to secure a lease rate factor. The result was low satisfaction among the internal business partners. "They just couldn't do their job efficiently because of the delay in the timing," Selk says, adding that the manual processes also made it difficult to track information on the different equipment leases out for bid and those that had been completed.
Selk was a member of Bank of America's Six Sigma group, which has been systematically working its way through the bank's processes in search of new efficiencies. The bank's Six Sigma group began looking at the leasing process a couple years ago after one of its black belts moved from technology and operations to the supply chain management group and wound up heading, among other offices, the leasing department. Aware of the end user discontent with the IT equipment leasing process, the bank moved Selk over to leasing as well to work on a Six Sigma project in the department.
The Six Sigma team began by evaluating the current leasing process and identifying the primary bottlenecks, which turned out to be the manual RFP processes. As the team began evaluating ways to streamline this process, Selk learned that, in fact, the supply chain management group had been using an e-sourcing solution elsewhere in the bank for about three years to streamline the purchasing of various other goods. After consulting with the Six Sigma black belt, Selk and her team decided to try applying the same solution, from Atlanta-based provider Procuri, to the IT equipment leasing process as well, an initiative that Selk says was possible because all the bank's lessors are included on one master lease.
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Inventory Management and Wareshousing
The second largest cost element in supply chain logistics is inventory management. Managing inventories effectively is often overlooked in business because inventory carrying costs such as obsolescence, storage, and the opportunity cost of money are indirect costs. Furthermore, the ambiguity about who is responsible for inventory often frustrates good inventory management. This short course is designed to ensure that participants understand the cost impact of inventory management in the supply chain and provide an understanding of basic tools to better control inventory costs.
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- Managing the three basic questions of inventory management: When to order, how much to order, how much safety stock to hold?
- Alternatives to Forecasting
- Practical steps to improving inventory management.
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- Performance and cost measurements
- Evolving role of warehouses in product and order and customization programs
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- Storage options & racking varieties to support each
- How packaging decisions impact warehousing costs
- Relationship of transportation management to warehouse costs and service
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This program is designed for those working in logistics, operations, manufacturing, inventory control and supply chain management functions wanting to get a full perspective on warehousing issues and opportunities
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It's been a while since I last wrote for this blog and although it's been a hectic couple of months, I've had a great time. At the moment I'm in Brazil where I spend two to three months of the year training. I usually hang around Uruau which is quite near Fortaleza – the conditions are great for both training and fun sessions with great winds and a lagoon. And of course there's a great group of kitesurfers here to keep me company throughout the day.
September was also a great month, as I spent three weeks in Hawaii working with the Cabrinha team on product development, which is a really interesting part of my work. Fitness is obviously an important part of any athlete's training, but so is the ability to get the very most out of the equipment that you have and improve that equipment to get ever closer to perfection.
As you know the last competition saw me finish third in Fuerteventura and I really want to improve on that result in the final two events in Cina and New Caledonia. That way I'll be able to keep my current ranking of third place for 2012 – would be a great way to finish the year off!
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Check out these trick tips from Hype Energy kite surfer Alberto Rondina:
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Wow! I had a fantastic ten days in Gran Canaria. Great wind nearly every day – it is really one of my favourite places to train and somewhere I could seriously consider living. I always get a bit sad when I have to leave GC and all my friends there. This time though I wasn't quite so sad though as I knew that I was moving on to another little spot I know – Brazil. After a quick stopover at home in Italy to pick up a few things and change a bit of equipment I headed off to Rome to get the plane to Fortaleza. There wasn't much wind when I arrived, but you never have to wait too long here for the right conditions to get out and start doing some serious tricks and get everything toned up and perfected.
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